Members in good standing with our club are eligible to submit photos to the MAPV photo competition and encouraged to volunteer to help with the event.
Nature and Photo Art Competitions Open August 6.
For more about the competition, click here: https://midatlanticphotovisions.org/expo-submissions/
The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center displays thousands of aviation and space artifacts, including the Space Shuttle Discovery, a Blackbird SR-71, the Enola Gay, and a Concorde, in two large hangars. This annex of the National Space and Air Museum opens at 10 am. Join us for a photowalk on September 9th to try your hand at indoor photography.
Free admission
No tickets required
Parking $15
Meet me (Audrey Gassman) outside the doors to the museum at 9:50 am and we’ll go in at 10 am. We have the option of having lunch afterwards at the on-site McDonald’s Restaurant.
Address: 14390 Air and Space Museum Pkwy, Chantilly, VA
LPC End-of-Year Pizza Party 2023
Date/time: Saturday, June 10th at 4:00 p.m.
Location: Moorefield Station Community Park
43240 Clarendon Square
Ashburn, VA 20148
Join us for our season wrap-up! We’ll have a selection of pizzas and a salad.
Logistics: We’ll be at Pavilion #3. It has picnic tables and benches with limited seating capacity. Feel free to bring a lawn chair if you want a guaranteed seat. The parking lot is close to the pavilion, so it’s not far to carry items.
Agenda:
4:00-4;45 = Arrive, mingle, consume dinner (in random order)
4:45-6:15 = Awards, announcements, speeches.
6:15-7:00 = Mingle, photo stories galore.
7:00-7:30 = Teardown, cleanup.
When: September 28, 2013
Where: Zoom meeting
Theme: TBA
Theme Description:
Judge:
Submission details:
Novice Level (Overall max: 4)
Submit color entries (max 2)
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Intermediate Level (Overall max: 3)
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Experienced Level (Overall max: 3)
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Join us for our season wrap-up! We’ll have a selection of pizzas and a salad.
Please choose your meal preference when purchasing your ticket (through Meetup Events and Eventbrite)
Logistics:
43240 Clarendon Square
Ashburn, VA 20148
We will be at Pavilion #3. It has picnic tables and benches with limited seating capacity. Feel free to bring a lawn chair if you want a guaranteed seat. The parking lot is close to the pavilion, so it’s not far to carry items.
Agenda:
4:00-4:45 = Arrive, mingle, consume dinner (in random order)
4;45-6:15 =Awards, announcements, speeches
6:15-7:00 =Mingle, photo stories galore.
7:00 -7:30 = Teardown/Cleanup
Thursday, 11 May 2023, 7 PM – 9 PM
Zoom meeting
Stan will discuss “Birds of Bosque”.
Stan’s first love has always been the study of coral reef ecology and this has led to over three decades of diving and underwater photography. The digital age has relinquished boxes of slides to storage closets as scanned images just don’t seem to compare to newer techniques.
He and his wife spent over three years on the island of Curacao – and he may have been under water more than on dry land. Now back in the States, his photography is a work in progress with each new destination.
When: Thursday, 27 April 2023, 7 PM – 9 PM
Where: Zoom meeting
Submission details shown below.
Theme: View From Below
Theme Description: Image of a subject as seen from below.
Judge: Sandi Croan
Submission details:
Novice Level (Overall max: 4)
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Intermediate Level (Overall max: 3)
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Experienced Level (Overall max: 3)
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Thursday, 13 April 2023, 7 PM – 9 PM
Zoom meeting
Jack will discuss “Bucket List – Travels to Memorable Places”
Jack has been a member of LPC for several years and will share his experiences and observations from his “travels to memorable places.”
It’s that time again: Virginia bluebells!
Join me, John Tabor, for a walk to photograph the bluebells at Ball’s Bluff. The cover photo above was taken there on Sat, 25 Mar and I think they’ll be looking really good next weekend.
Date/Time: Sat, 1 April 2023, 9a – 11:30a (no joke!)
I plan to go rain or shine. Wet bluebells are awesome! 🙂
Rally point: The far east end of the parking lot. There’s a mulch pile by our trailhead.
Trail difficulty: Moderate. There are a couple of fairly steep hills and there is one section about 35 yards long with rather obvious exposed tree roots. The last obstacle before reaching the bluebells is a large tree fallen across the trail. It’s an old treefall and I estimate the highest part we climb over is maybe 2.5 feet in diameter. We either scramble over the tree parts or take the rather steep trail around it.
Click here for a map of the path we’ll take.
Elevation gain: ~75 feet (-ish).
Equipment needed: A camera with a lens.
Recommended:
Optional:
When: Thursday, March 23, 2023, 7 PM – 9 PM
Where: Zoom meeting
Submission details shown below.
Theme: Industry
Theme Description: Image of or about “industry”.
Judge: David L. Crooks
Submission details:
Novice Level (Overall max: 4)
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Intermediate Level (Overall max: 3)
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Experienced Level (Overall max: 3)
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Thursday, 9 Febuary 2023, 7 PM – 9 PM
Zoom meeting
Ben will discuss “Panoramic Photography: Methods and Examples in Virginia and the Nation”
Ben Greenberg is a lifelong resident of Virginia who moved to Charlottesville for the third time in 2002. He grew up in Richmond and lived most of his adult life there. His passion for photography began in 1970 when his oldest son was born and he was lent a totally manual Kodak Retina C Camera to photograph. From this beginning his fascination with and commitment to photography grew quickly and it wasn’t long before he began capturing images of his family and the world around him
He has now photographed scenic vistas in Virginia, the mid-Atlantic area and many locations in the United States for forty years, the last thirty-five as a freelance professional photographer. His carefully crafted landscape photographs have won local and national awards and competitions and have been exhibited in numerous individual and group shows. They have been featured in diverse publications and purchased for scores of private collections.
Ben’s images are currently represented in three galleries and two other shops in Virginia. Ben also enjoys exhibiting his landscape photographs in selective outdoor arts and crafts shows, such as the Crozet Arts and Crafts Festival in Crozet, Virginia in the Spring and Fall and Arts in the Park in Richmond in the Spring. His primary subjects are the scenic vistas of mountains, landscapes, rivers, lakes and shorelines of Virginia and the nation.
When: Thursday, February 23, 2023, 7 PM – 9 PM
Where: Zoom meeting
Submission details shown below.
Theme: Vintage
Theme Description: Image conveying a sense of the past (i.e. alternate film types/different eras/etc.).
Judge: Janet Little
Submission details:
Novice Level (Overall max: 4)
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Intermediate Level (Overall max: 3)
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Experienced Level (Overall max: 3)
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Thursday, 9 Febuary 2023, 7 PM – 9 PM
Zoom meeting
Irene will discuss “A Passion for Wildlife Photography”.
Since 1979, Irene has led numerous tours under the auspices of Osprey Photo Workshops and Tours, and has conducted many photographic workshops for zoos, nature centers, and organizations like the National Wildlife Federation and the Assateague Island Alliance. She regularly lectures at Johns Hopkins University and conducts seminars for other educational institutions, retirement communities, and bird and photo clubs including the New England Council of Camera Clubs. Workshops and classes cover nature, wildlife, garden, and travel photography plus programs on locations such as the Brazilian Pantanal, Iceland, and Chincoteague. Irene’s “How To” articles have appeared in many national publications.
Her photography has appeared in numerous magazines as well as many books, calendars, note cards, and posters for national campaigns.
Irene’s degrees in biology and chemistry, and her strong background in the environmental science field, add to her already impressive credentials.
Irene has contributed more than 70 images to Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge’s new Herbert H. Bateman Administrative and Education Center and other interpretive displays. Many images displayed in the exhibit appear in Irene’s book “Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, An Ecological Treasure”.
In the past 30 years, Irene has led over 200 programs in more than 80 locations in the United States and abroad. When developing workshops and tours, she researches locations thoroughly, creating itineraries that provide participants with optimal photo opportunities.
When: Thursday, February 02, 2022, 7 PM – 9 PM
Where: Zoom meeting
Submission details shown below.
LPC’s facilitator for this evening is John Tabor.
Topic: Open
The goal of this event is to improve everybody’s photography with constructive feedback in a friendly, non-competitive environment. Upload up to two of your images to this dedicated gallery by 12pm, Thursday, 02 Feb, then join us Thursday evening at 7p for review of and comments on images.
This is not a competition and paid membership is not required for this event. This is an opportunity to ask questions on composition, editing, and other perspectives about your images – and to offer your opinions on other images. Images are treated anonymously by the facilitator, though you may certainly speak up with any specific questions or desired feedback about your images from the other participants.
John will be using Lightroom for this event and you’ll see live edits based on audience feedback during the event.
The following 12 guidelines are common considerations by judges. Not all of these will be covered for each image in this critique and they are listed here so you have an idea of what questions to ask about your own images – and to prompt some ideas for your own feedback on the various images presented.
When: Thursday, January 26, 2022, 7 PM – 9 PM
Where: Zoom meeting
Submission details shown below.
Theme: Making Tracks
Theme Description: Image where the primary subject is tracks and perhaps how they are made.
Judge: John Garofalo
Submission details:
Novice Level (Overall max: 4)
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Intermediate Level (Overall max: 3)
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Experienced Level (Overall max: 3)
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Thursday, 12 January 2023, 7 PM – 9 PM
Zoom meeting
Sandi will discuss “Seeing Creatively Before and After”.
Sandi Croan is an independent artist from Centreville who has been living in Northern Virginia since 1978. Professionally, she has been a registered Physical Therapist, Director of Personnel and Administration at a Social Science Consulting Firm, and President and Co-founder of a personnel staffing agency.
Sandi has always looked at the world through the lens of a camera. She has been taking photographs for family, friends, and her own gallery since her first “Brownie” camera. Over the past 15 years, she has gotten much more serious about landscape, nature, travel, and portrait photography. Now, she is devoting herself full-time to her photographic passion, and constantly striving to capture that special moment in time as well as the beauty, wonderment, feelings and humanity that surrounds us.
Sandi has won numerous competitions and awards for her fine art photographs. She has been juried into many shows and exhibitions. She was awarded Best Landscape and People’s Choice Award at the prestigious Nature Visions Photography Exposition and was honored with both Best of Show and Second place at the Meadowlark Nature Photography Expo. She has also won Photographer of the Year and numerous Prints of the Year at Northern Virginia Photographic Society, as well as many competition awards. Sandi was a featured artist in Elan Magazine, and her photograph “Blue Lagoon” was on the cover. She has also had photographs published in other local and national magazines.
When: Thursday, December 15, 2022, 7 PM – 9 PM
Where: Zoom meeting
Submission details shown below.
Theme: Shadows
Theme Description: Image where the primary subject comprises one or more shadows.
Judge: Walt Callahan
Photography is Walter Calahan’s passion — whether it is for advertising, corporate annual reports or collateral publications, magazines, websites, or simply for the personal joy of viewing the world with a camera. His photographic career has taken him under the Atlantic Ocean aboard a US Navy Trident Submarine, down lava tube caves in Idaho, into surgical clinics for Afghan refugees in Pashawar, Pakistan, canoing the Okefenokee Swamp of Georgia and the great northern woods of Canada, being launched off the deck of a US Navy Aircraft Carrier, celebrating children learning to tap dance, as well as the tumult of the Romanian Revolution.
The magazines that have used his work included the National Geographic Society, The New York Times Magazine, Boys’ Life, Time, Fortune, Business Week, Smithsonian, Sports Illustrated, Bon Appétit, Family Fun, Computer World, PC World, Wired, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair, to name just a few.
General Electric, Yamaha, American Express, Carroll Lutheran Village, Messiah College, The Washington Performing Art Society, Hillel Foundation, Harvard Business School, University of Miami Business School, Babson College, and many others have asked him to illustrate their publications and advertisements.
As an adjunct instructor, he teaches both digital and film photography for Stevenson University and McDaniel College’s art departments, insuring a love for photography in the next generation of image makers.
Walter graduated with honors from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications with a Bachelor of Science in Photojournalism and earned a Master of Liberal Arts degree specializing in the creative process from McDaniel College.
Submission details:
Novice Level (Overall max: 4)
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Intermediate Level (Overall max: 3)
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Experienced Level (Overall max: 3)
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Thursday, 1 December 2022, 7 PM – 9 PM
Zoom meeting
Antony will discuss “Mastering Long Exposure”.
Whether you’re taking photographs in the dead of night or looking to create an ethereal effect with water or clouds during the day, long exposures are among the most challenging areas of photography. Very often there are physical obstacles to overcome, whether it’s being unable to see to frame your shot or focus, an inability to predict movement during the exposure, or simply the need to hold your camera steady while the shutter is open. There are also numerous technical issues to resolve, such as striking a balance between ISO and noise, dealing with high dynamic range, and maintaining the best possible image quality when the laws of physics are working against you. Yet, just as the demands placed upon the photographer are exceptional, so too are the images that can be created when you push your camera to its limits.
Antony is a commercial and fine art photographer, author, tutor and speaker and his work specializes in architectural and urban images, and images using long exposure techniques. He has written a number of photography books available globally, including the bestselling Mastering Long Exposure – The Definitive Guide published by Ammonite Press and National Geographic. You can see more about his published books here.
He has won numerous photography awards and recently a Hasselblad Masters 2021 Finalist. His images have been published in a wide variety of books, magazines, television and for advertising as well as displayed in a variety of locations around the world. He also regularly talks on various aspects of photography to a range of clients and also runs a range of tutorials from private classes to group lessons.
Thursday, 10 November 2022, 7 PM – 9 PM
Zoom meeting
David will present “Early Light and the Golden Hour in DC”, an illustrated slide talk showing where all the best pictures are when the sun is low, the light is soft and golden.
He is a professional architectural photographer and founder of the award-winning Washington Photo Safari program (http://www.washingtonphotosafari.com).
Since the program began in 1999, David and his 11 fellow instructors have trained over 40,600 amateur photographers from 50 US states and 70 countries in camera usage for 29 different areas of photography, such as travel, architecture, nighttime, portraits, event, street, nature and wildlife photography and in Lightroom and Photoshop post-processing techniques. Training an average of 5 photographers every day, 365 days a year for 22+ years, his 6,250 + small-group safaris have taken place in 186 different locations in 30 cities of 11 states and 8 countries around the world, including photo cruises in the Caribbean and in Europe. Keeping overhead low, this entire operation is run by David and a website assistant. He can be contacted at edaviduria@juno.com
David’s Washington Photo Safari has received hundreds of 5-star reviews on all major search engines, and it benefits from high customer loyalty, with about one-third of all his clients, 12,400 people, coming back as repeat customers, year after year, 800 of them participating in an average of 9 safaris apiece. In 2019 it was ranked among the top two Best Photography Services in the DC Area by the readers of DC’s City Paper. Trip Advisor now ranks Washington Photo Safari at No. 3 out of 91 outdoor activities in DC. David is also the author of a 130-page ebook entitled “Washington Photo Safari’s Guide For Amateur Photographers,” with helpful tips in 29 areas of photography.
Born in Hamburg, David is a Holocaust survivor who barely escaped Nazi Germany with his family on the last ship from Hamburg to New York City in December of 1938. Raised in New York, David has lived in his adopted city of Washington DC for more than 50 years, and so he claims to know where all the good pictures are! He has photographed over 3,500 apartment, hotel and restaurant properties in the DC area, plus dozens of events and conventions, and he is a frequent speaker at local camera clubs, including that of the National Press Club in Washington DC. He is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers and the Society of Photographic Educators. and a founding member of the Association of Independent Architectural Photographers. His website is www.edavidluriaphotography.smugmug.com
David also spent 25 years as a Volunteer Information Specialist with Travelers Aid at Reagan Washington National Airport and currently volunteers his time as the official photographer for DC Veterans for Statehood, and DC Vote, and as president of the Brandywine Tenants Association in his Washington DC apartment building..
A political science honors graduate of Amherst College and a US Army veteran, David is fluent in Spanish, French, German and English, served 3+ years in the Army during the Cold War in Germany, spent 34 years as a senior executive working for international non-profit organizations like CARE, Inc, which included 6 years in Colombia and Panama, and studied photography with a protege of famed French photographer Henri Cartier- Bresson at the Parsons School of Design in Paris, France. He claims his proudest achievements are his 3 children and 4 grandchildren and the fact that he has enabled tens of thousands of people to experience the joy of photography.
When: Thursday, October 27, 2022, 7 PM – 9 PM
Where: Zoom meeting
Submission details shown below.
Theme: Heat
Theme Description: Image of or about “heat”.
Judge: Mary Ann Setton
Mary Ann is both a past VP for Competitions and Past President of the Northern Virginia Photographic Society (NVPS). She is a 1995 graduate of the Washington School of Photography and has augmented that training with many photography and Adobe Photoshop courses, including the famed Freeman Patterson’s Photography and Visual Design Workshop in 2007. She worked as a professional photographer and videographer from 1997 to 2009 and for several years ran a portrait studio in her home. Experienced as a judge and critique leader, Mary Ann completed Joe Miller’s Seminar on Judging in December 2006.
Her images have won numerous awards in the Northern Virginia Photographic Society, ribbons from the Vienna Photography Shows where she won “Best In Show” in 2001, and several images were juried into the Art League of Alexandria’s monthly exhibits at The Torpedo Factory, where she also won a prestigious Equal Award in 2002 and maintained a bin for two years. She was named NVPS “Photographer of the Year” in both 2005 and 2006 in the category of Enhanced Prints and won two “Print of the Year” Awards in 2000 and two again in the 2005. Her image “All Truckered Out” won first place in the AAA World 2009 photo contest. In 2011 her prints were juried into both Joe Miller’s Abstract Art Exhibit and The Blue Ridge Mountain Arts Council Spring Photography Show.
Mary Ann and her husband Dick live in the northern Shenandoah Valley area where she has organized and leads a Photography Club in her active adult community, frequently teaching and encouraging novice photographers. While she continues to do some professional work in photo restoration, portraits, and creating fine art prints, greeting and note cards, she spends the majority of her photographic time honing her craft by working on photographic art and trying to stay current with her favorite software, Photoshop.
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